The Airbus A380 Superjumbo has a new buyer, but the company doesn't want to say who

Airbus seems to have finally found a new customer for its A380
Superjumbo.

Airbus CEO Fabrice Bregier announced this week at the company's
annual meeting that it had a firm order for three aircraft from
an undisclosed "global leading airline."

Bregier said the airline requested that Airbus not yet disclose
the buyer's identity, but Nikkei has reportedthat the mystery
airline isJapan's All Nippon Airways.

This would be the first airline to purchase the A380 since
Emirates placed an order in late 2013.

According to Nikkei, ANA plans to deploy the three double-deckers
to ferry tourists back and forth from Tokyo to Hawaii. The deal
is valued at just over $1.2 billion.

This A380 order seems to have been a couple of years in the
making, with the Japanese carrier reportedly looking into the airliner as far back as 2014. ANA is
expected to take delivery of its A380s starting in 2018.

Airbus has sold 319 of the massive jets over the past decade and
a half.

Emirates alone accounts for 140 of the orders. There are 179
examples of the aircraft in service around the world with 13
airlines.

The news around the A380 is still not completely rosy. This
week, Virgin Atlantic Airways, which has a long-delayed
outstanding order for six A380s, reportedly ordered 12 A350-1000
wide-body airliners to replace the airline's aging Boeing 747-400
leisure fleet.

Last year, Virgin Atlantic CEO Craig Kreeger told Business
Insider the airline would accept delivery of the A380s only if
there was enough capacity for all six jets.